Install Cyanogenmod 13 Nightly on Galaxy S3 Marshmallow 6.0.1

The Samsung Galaxy S3 notonly it isone ofthe most selling Samsung phones but also it’s world’s best selling smartphone. Although, this phone is launched in 2014, May the phone is still having support from developers of the custom ROMs.

Fortunately, there are many custom ROMs for Samsung Galaxy S3 that you can find by checking XDA-Developers site, but only some of them are completely stable and comes without issues. Cyanogenmod Team has released many custom firmwares for Galaxy S3 such as CM12, CM12.1 and this time also CM13.

For people who do not know, CM13 ROM is based on Marshmallow 6.0.x which means that it comes installed with all Android Marshmallow 6.0 features, applications and capabilities. Before starting the guide how to update Samsung Galaxy S3 to Marshmallow 6.0.1 I recommend you to check some Prerequisites from below

Please use this guide only with the Samsung Galaxy S3 GT-I9300 variants.

Your phone should have root access. You can easily verify if your phone have root access using Root Checker application.

You need to installed a custom recovery image such as TWRP, CWM or even pHilz.

Since, we will complete an unofficial operation during the update process you will have to perform a factory reset. All your personal data will be erased so, I highly recommend you to backup your important data.

Make sure you have installed Samsung drivers or Samsung Kies software on your computer.